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Conservation workers have been warned about this for many years. Orangutan - one of the world's most intelligent animals - is officially on the brink of extinction.
The Bornean orangutan is now in the most critical and dangerous state, based on research on a species published this week by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The Sumatran orangutan has also been on the list of extinct species, and that means all orangutans are currently at "high risk of extinction in the wild," IUCN said.
"This is a long-established clear fact: orangutan conservation is failing," said Andrew Marshall, one of the study authors at Mongabay this week.
In 2015, conservationist Richard Zimmerman recalls the story of Kesi, a baby of the Bornean orangutan. The rescue workers discovered Kesi in 2006 on an island in Borneo. She was 3 months old, small and fragile - and lost her hands.
Zimerman believed the baby and the mother had to be separated by humans after the forests were destroyed to make the palm oil industry. After killing the orangutan mother, they cut the baby's hand.
"The orangutan's baby has a tight grip on his mother's long haired belly," Zimmerman, whose orangutan Outreach organization, facilitated the rescue and rehabilitation of wild orangutans, told The Huffington Post last year. Separating him from his mother. "
In the rescue effort, Kesi was successfully rehabilitated. It grows into a strong and dominant female who does not stop herself from doing anything despite losing her hands, Zimmerman said. One day he will soon be released back into the wild.
Based on the IUCN, Kalimantan's orangutan population has declined since the 1970s, and will subsequently decrease to about 47,000 orangutans by 2025. This would represent a decline of more than 86 percent in 75 years, the organization explained.

The Sumatran Orangutan also experienced a drastic decline in the last century. Only a few of the 73,000 heads now live in the wild.

In particular, orangutans live on the island of Sumatra and the island of Borneo, which is divided between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei.

Experts point to rainforest destruction in Sumatra and Kalimantan as a result of oil palm production activities as the biggest threat to surviving orangutans. High commodities are the main cause of forest destruction in Indonesia, accounting for 75 percent of the forests lost in Kalimantan, according to Greenpeace research in 2013.